The
watermelons, like their communist counterparts, claim to be the advocates
of the have-nots. But, it is not poverty they fight but the impact of
capitalism (which brings both the benefits of technology and affluence
not only to the middle and upper classes but to the "poor"
as well). Since the ecoalarmists believe that people are the root cause
of global warming, population + affluence + technology = ecological
disaster— a formula that requires government control since the
watermelons are convinced that human development and prosperity are
detrimental to the environment.

The
human influence on climate has never been documented even though the
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change claimed, in its 1996
assessment, that the human impact on climate had been proven based on
130 peer-reviewed studies. In reality the "consensus" was
based entirely on two research papers, not 130. Neither had been subjected
to peer review. Neither was supported by fact. Both papers were written
by Dr. Benjamin D. Santer, a junior research scientist working at the
US government's Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. Santer was busy
trying to make a name for himself in the Clinton Administration. Lending
credibility to his report was then Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary
of State Day Olin Mount, who reported to Undersecretary of State for
Global Affairs Timothy Wirth who, with then Vice President Al Gore,
Jr., wrote the Kyoto Protocol that, if fully implemented, will return
the First World economies to the Dark Ages as it elevates the Third
World (and China)—which are exempt from the carbon dioxide greenhouse
gas restrictions—to First World economic status. Mount held up
the printing of the report for a final addendum in a letter to Sir John
Houghton, chairman of the IPCC Working Group. The addendum was a back
room "edit" of Santer's work. In the approved text that did
get peer-reviewed, Santer said: "None of the studies cited above
has shown clear evidence that we can attribute the observed [climate]
changes to the specific cause of increases in greenhouse gases [human
interference]." However, in the version that was published and
released in May, 1996, Santer said: "There is evidence of an emerging
pattern of climate response to forcing by greenhouse gases...from the
geographical, seasonal...patterns of temperature change...These results
point toward a human influence on global climate." Mount was rewarded
for his diligence by being appointed US Ambassador to Iceland. Santer
was awarded a MacArthur Foundation "genius" fellowship with
a $270 thousand grant. Dr. Frederick Seitz accused Santer of doctoring
his 1996 report in a June 12, 1996 op-ed piece for the Wall Street Journal.

In
2010 the United States will be required to limit carbon dioxide emissions
by 7% below its 1990 levels. Seven percent does not seem like much.
However, US industrialists have warmed that due to increased productivity,
what factories remain in the US will produce 16% more greenhouse gases
in 2010 than it did in 1990. So what sounds like a 7% reduction is actually
a 23% reduction. In the second phase of Kyoto, the United States would
have to reduce carbon dioxide emission by 60% below its 1990 level.
This would virtually end manufacturing of any type in the United States
of America. At that point the United States would have to rely completely
on its new step-siblings in the southern hemisphere where carbon dioxide
doesn't appear to cause pollution by the rules established by those
transferring the wealth of the First World to the Third World where
the human capital that will become the primary consumers of the 21st
century live.

The
one-sided debate

The
Earth is warming up.That's
an inescapable fact. The northern hemisphere crept out from under the
most recent cooling phase (which began around 1250 AD) in 1930. Science
refers to that cooling phase as the Little Ice Age. That's an inescapable
fact, too. While a handful of scientists—now estimated to be about
9% of those studying climate change—believe that climate change
is orchestrated by man, the inescapable truth is climate change is caused
by solar cycles and not man. Carbon dioxide levels do not, have not,
and will not precipitate climate change. What's more, the ecoalarmists
like Timothy Wirth and Al Gore know it.

The
ecoalarmists insist that climate change is triggered by increases in
greenhouse gases that shroud the planet over time, trapping heat in
the atmosphere like an atrium and raising the surface temperature of
the planet. Climate change. Satellite imagery and high altitude balloon
temperature data retrieval confirm that the lower atmosphere is not
trapping the volume of heat needed to impact global climate since it
is high altitude temperature upheavals not low altitude temperature
changes that determine climate change.

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Second,
oxygen-16 and oxygen-18 isotope ice core samples in both the Arctic
and sub-Arctic and the Antarctic and carbon-14 and beryllium-10 isotope
samples presents hard evidence of both the Earth's temperatures and
the history of increases in carbon dioxide levels. It is an inescapable
fact that carbon dioxide (greenhouse gas) is not the culprit that is
causing climate change since in every instance where both factors are
measured, temperature increases precede the buildup of carbon dioxide.
What that means is that it warms first, and the increased temperatures
precipitate increased levels of Co2. That, also, is an inescapable fact
even though the ecoalarmists are doing their level best to erase the
world's climate history since the facts disprove the theory that increased
levels of carbon dioxide cause global warming.

Ice
core graphs from the north and south extremities of the planet, together
with isotope samples in more moderate regions of the planet have confirmed
the medieval warming period that made Greenland "green" and
warmed the northern hemisphere. Clearly the medieval warming was not
caused by the exorbitant use of fossil fuels just as carbon dioxide
from factories and car exhausts is not causing the current cycle of
climate change. The impact man has on the climate is less than 1%.

All
the money in the world, and all of the punitive regulations that can
be implemented by the watermelon bureaucracies around the world to limit
pollution, curb Co2, and make people bath 20 times a day to reduce body
heat, or produce flatulence-free feeds to keep cattle from passing gas
will stop, slow or moderate, global warming. The world's leading climatologists
and astrophysicists are in complete accord (at least those not paid
by the watermelon environmental groups or the barons of business and
princes of industry in whose best interest it is to transfer the wealth
of the First World nations to the human capital-rich Third World where
the prime consumers of the 21st century reside) that global
warming is 99% created by cyclic solar activity.

To
dispute that there was medieval warming period, Raymond S. Bradley wrote
an article for Science Magazine on October 17, 2003. The article was
entitled "Climate in Medieval Times." Bradley is a climatologist
and a professor in the Department of Geosciences at the University of
Massachusetts Amherst. Bradley wrote a history of the last 1,000 years,
disputing that there was a medieval warming period. To accomplish this
Bradley, with the help of Michael Mann, a young Ph.D from the University,
substituted Mann's temperature proxies for the the ice core isotopes
(tree rings) from moderate urban, heat zones, then using the official
temperatures in those urban heat zones, postulated what he thought the
temperatures all over the planet would have been over the past 1,000
years. (The Clinton Administration—or rather Al Gore—singled
out Mann's work in 2000 to be included, as fact, in the US National
Assessment of the Potential Consequences of Climate Variability and
Change. Gore liked the Mann Study because it contradicted hundreds of
embarrassing historic documents that factually confirmed the medieval
warming period had occurred. Mann's statistics showed 900 years of stable
global temperatures that suddenly spiraled upward after 1910 with the
advent of the automobile.

To
the ecoalarmist, evidence that climate change is cyclic is the kiss
of death since that means regardless what man does, global warming and
cooling is going to happen. Once Mann caught the attention of ecoalarmist
Al Gore, his theory gave the IPCC an answer to the embarrassing questions
concerning the medieval warming period: it simply didn't happen. For
his groundbreaking work, Mann became a primary author of IPCC, and a
key editor of The Journal of Climate.

In
2004 two researchers from the University of Guelph in Canada, Stephen
McIntyre and Ross McKittrick (who were studying the Medieval Warming
Period), were stymied by Mann's claims and requested the original study
data from the IPCC. The documents they received were incomplete and
the data presented could not produce the claimed conclusion. They discovered
that Mann's work had never been subjected to peer review. Using corrected
and updated data, McIntyre and McKittrick recalculated Mann's temperature
index (using Mann's own methodology). The results were published in
Energy & Environment later that year. McIntyre and McKittrick reported
that "...[t]he major finding is that the [warming]in the early
15th century exceed[s] any [warming] in the 20th century."

Mann's
study became known by honest climatologists all over the world as the
"Hockey Stick Theory" because, in his model, global temperatures
were static until early in the 20th century when they suddenly spiked
upward, presenting a graph that looked like a hockey stick. Mann's theory
completely ignored Co2.

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Had
Mann paid attention to that factor he would have had to explain why
tree ring samples collected from bristlecone pines in the Sierra Nevada
Mountains showed a major growth spurt after 1910. Temperature alone
cannot account for major growth spurts in mature trees. Growth spurts
come from feeding the tree. Co2 acts as fertilizer for trees and other
plants. Plantlife needs Co2 to grow. When tree rings show growth spurts
there is always a parallel increase in the level of Co2 in the air.
The more Co2, the more growth. Temperature can be calculated from the
distance between the tree rings, with wider spaces between the rings
as the climate warms. The Mann samples actually prove that the warming
occurred first, followed by increased levels of Co2—once again,
disproving the theories of the ecoalarmists who insist that manmade
greenhouse gases are responsible for global warming. For part three
click below.

Jon Christian Ryter is the pseudonym of a
former newspaper reporter with the Parkersburg, WV Sentinel. He authored
a syndicated newspaper column, Answers From The Bible, from the mid-1970s
until 1985. Answers From The Bible was read weekly in many suburban
markets in the United States.

Today, Jon is an advertising
executive with the Washington Times. His website, www.jonchristianryter.com
has helped him establish a network of mid-to senior-level Washington
insiders who now provide him with a steady stream of material for use
both in his books and in the investigative reports that are found on
his website.

When working class
Americans look at one another, each sees another human being with equal
rights who is a member of the world's greatest free enterprise society.
When members of the environmental elite looks the "human machine"
they don't see flesh and blood but human capital that disproportionately
consumes the world's natural resources and proliferates waste.